I don’t generally keep up with global news. I am always impressed by people who do, however. Knowing our strengths is important and processing so much drama is not one of mine. I like to think that someone will tell me when I really ought to know about something. Until then, characters like me continue to waft around believing there is so much good in the world and because we believe it and imagine it and hope for it, we see it!
Last week it was our teenage children who came home from school to inform us of the breaking news. A particular storm had broken out on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and unsuspecting youngsters here in Africa experienced the shock waves soon after. There is so much chaos all over the world and people are going through unimaginable suffering without anyone reporting it, but when one man was killed for what he was saying the whole world heard about it, even the ones who are trying not to listen.
A united agreement that this is foul play. An eerie reckoning that this is not so much the end as it is the beginning.
The shot that rang out and silenced a man last week signalled a surge across the start line where participants have been gathering like swells of an almighty wave. The one in centre stage fell, and all those waiting in the wings have heard their, unmistakable, cue to rise.
It’s like blowing a dandelion seed head apart and hoping that will eradicate all dandelions in the garden. You cannot bury seeds and not understand the exponential returns of such an action.
One voice has given way to a global roar. The perpetuation of truth and life rings on, and ever louder now as these shock reverberations agitate humanity.
In times like these it is good to know that Jesus had already seen it all the way to the end from the beginning.
John 16 v 33: I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
When it comes to voices and being silenced, Jesus is the Word (John 1), and by Him the worlds were created (Hebrews 11). When a man has the Word in him, the conversation is not over until it’s over, no matter what sort of a news worthy war was going on to stop it.
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